Howick GB

Howick perches on Northumberland's coast nine miles northeast of Alnwick, reached via the A1 then B1339 through Alnwick. This clifftop village overlooks the North Sea and Farne Islands, popular with day-trippers from Newcastle using coastal roads like the B6347. The maritime climate brings changeable weather and bracing sea winds year-round. Howick Hall's gardens boast one of Britain's finest collections of rare trees, some thriving here for over 250 years despite the harsh coastal exposure.